TNAG-1849-FCO40-2624-House-of-Commons-Select-Committee-on-Foreign-Affairs-enquiry-1989 — Page 39

24 MAY '89 23:21 FROM COI TECH RADIO

TRANSCRIPT J: SELECT COMMITTEE RE HONG KONG 24 MAY 1989

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CHAIRMAN:

We want to coDE to that as well.

Let us wind up this general section, if we may, by

seeking from you an actual statistic: how many people in

Hong Kong are eligible for British Dependent Territory

passports or BHO passports? How many actually bold a

BDTC or BNO passport and, finally, how many of these are

non-Chinese?

TIM RESTON:

The answer to the first is three-and-a-quarter

adlion and the same auswer applies potentially to the

second because there is no reason why every BDTC in Hong

Kong should not, if they wish, convert to a BNO passport,

but as you would know, Mr.Chairman, that has to be done

before 1 July 1997 and speaking from memory I cannot for

the moment lay my finger on the statistic

at this stage applied for BNO passports.

latest information that we have.

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it is 60,000

That is the

CHAIRMAN:

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My final question I am sorry to put these really

basic statistics at least for this Committee how many of

these are non-Chinese?

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